See also:SIR See also:ASHLEY See also:EDEN (1831-1887)
, Anglo-See also:Indian See also:official and diplomatist, third son of See also:Robert See also:John See also:Eden, third See also:Lord See also:Auckland and See also:bishop of See also:Bath and See also:Wells, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:November 1831, and was educated at See also:Rugby, See also:Winchester and the See also:East See also:India See also:Company's See also:college at Haileybury, entering the Indian See also:civil service in 1852
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In 1855 he gained distinction as assistant to the See also:special See also:commissioner for the suppression of the See also:Santal rising, and in 186o was appointed secretary to the See also:Bengal See also:government with an ex officio seat on the legislative See also:council, a
position he held for eleven years
.
In 1861 he negotiated, as was See also:Tin-ter, " dwelling of See also:life." Cf
.
Babilu, Babili, " See also:gate of See also:God
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Babylonia, Hommel thinks that it is rather the See also:plain about the sacred See also:city of See also:Eridu
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It is the latter See also:scholar to whom the " Arabian theory" of See also:Paradise in its best-known See also:form is due
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The See also:rivers (apart from Perath, " See also:Euphrates ") he locates in See also:northern and central See also:Arabia, the " See also:Cush " and " Asshur " of See also:Genesis being, according to him, central Arabia and See also:Edom respectively (See also:Ancient See also:Hebrew Traditions, pp
.
314-316; Aufsatze u: A:bhandlungen, iii
.
281-284, 335–339)• These rivers, in See also:short, become Arabian wadis, on which see Hast
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D.B. i
.
132a (See also:foot)
.
See also:Cheyne, on the other See also:hand, rejects the Babylonian explanation of Eden as " See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, plain," on the ground that " Eden " was originally regarded as a mountainous See also:tract
.
See further See also:Driver, See also:Book of Genesis (1904), pp
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57-60; Ency
.
Bib
.
" Paradise "; and the commentaries of Gunkel (2nd ed., 1902), and Cheyne (1907)
.
(T
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K
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